ASE welcomes submissions addressing topics across the full spectrum of Automated Software Engineering. Topics of interest include the following and are grouped into the following nine research areas. Please note that these topics are by no means exhaustive. Each submission will need to indicate one primary and optionally a secondary area. Program chairs will ultimately assign a paper to an area chair (and at least three reviewers), considering the authors’ selection, the paper’s content, and other factors such as (if applicable) possible conflicts of interest.

The areas and examples of topics within this area

Requirements and Design

    Requirements elicitation and management, traceability analysis
    Software architecture and design
    Modeling and model-driven engineering
    Software product lines
    Component-based or service-oriented systems
    Object-oriented or aspect-oriented systems

Testing and Analysis

    Regression, mutation, and model-based testing
    System, unit, and integration testing
    Black-, grey-, and white-box fuzzing
    Automated program repair and synthesis
    Static and dynamic analysis
    Empirical program analysis

Maintenance and Evolution

    Debugging and fault-localization
    Refactoring and reengineering
    Reverse engineering
    Software reuse
    API design and management

Human and Social Aspects

    Software engineering processes (e.g., agile, DevOps)
    Green and sustainable technologies
    Software engineering ethics and values
    Software economics
    Systematic code review and inspection
    Program comprehension and visualization
    Crowd-based and collaborative software engineering
    Human-computer interface

AI and Software Engineering

    Autonomous and self-adapting systems
    Search-based software engineering
    Recommender systems
    AI4SE
    SE4AI

Software Analytics

    Mining software repositories
    Analysis of mobile apps, app stores
    Data-driven user experience understanding and improvement
    Data-driven decision making in software engineering
    Software metrics (and measurements)

Formal Aspects of Software Engineering

    Formal methods and model checking
    Programming languages
    Domain-specific or specification languages
    Software validation and verification

Security and Other Non-Functional Properties

    Security and privacy
    Dependability and safety
    Reliability and availability
    Performance

ASE welcomes submissions addressing topics across the full spectrum of software engineering and a variety of application domains, including mobile, cloud, blockchains, embedded and cyber-physical systems, parallel/distributed/concurrent systems, probabilistic systems, and ubiquitous/pervasive software systems.